Harry Pierson raises the question, “ Is the middle tier dead .“
He goes on to say:
“ Why do we distribute applications across multiple systems today? Is it because we like managing multiple systems? No! It's for scalability. We...

Sony unveils its new “Blu-ray” laser . Say hello to 25GB per disc! The article claims 2 hours of hi-def video, but this has got to be using a really inefficient compression algorithm. It should be able to do MUCH more than that on 25 GB!

I learned about the Smart Device Framework project today. It looks quite interesting. A lot of this functionality will ship in Compact Framework 2.0, but this is available today. It supports things like working with the Registry and programmatically adding...

Here's a very useful compatibility matrix of Microsoft product and their support for both Itanium and x64.
What is x64 you ask? It is the “64-bit extensions“ technology pioneered by AMD which is in use in some of their Athlon products and...

First, there was John Topley's post earlier in the week. I particularly enjoyed it as it was from a third party, disassociated with Microsoft and from a declared platform neutral guy. Then today, I read Chris Pratley's excellent post on Word. While Chris...